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subota, 28.08.2010.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

The party platform in 1860 included planks calling for a high protective tariff, free homesteads, and a transcontinental railroad; these were bids for support among Westerners, farmers, and eastern manufacturing interests.

We are what we repeatedly do.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
No.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

In these postwar elections, the party, always supported by the Grand Army of the Republic , denounced all Democrats as former Copperheads and claimed to have alone saved the Union.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists do

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Maybe they were terrorists!

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
My home is not a place, it is people.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

I usually take books from school library.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

People fail forward to success.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizin

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

petak, 27.08.2010.

In addition, approximately 53 percent of men and women in Russian Federation report that one or more of their close relatives have a drinking problem.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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